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A 16-year-old Pickerington Central High School student is in a juvenile-detention facility, accused last month of threatening to bring a gun to school to hurt a classmate.

Ja’Wan Dorsey is charged with two delinquency counts of inducing panic and a delinquency charge of aggravated menacing, according to WBNS-TV (Channel 10).

He has been in the Multi-County Juvenile Detention Center in Lancaster since his arrest on Nov. 22.

Dorsey is accused of making a video in which he threatened to bring a “heater” or a “strap” to harm another 16-year-old male student. Pickerington Police Cmdr. Greg Annis said that’s slang for a gun. The video was posted online via social media.

“We take any threats of that nature very, very seriously,” Annis told WBNS. “That’s something we’re not going to stand idle by, particularly with the threat of a weapon being brought to the school.”

Four other students helped Dorsey make the video, but police say their actions didn’t constitute a crime. Superintendent Rob Walker told WBNS that the other four students were disciplined but didn’t give details.